Middle East

Solidarity spreads for victims of wage robbery and killing by multinational corporations.On Friday, February 17, several sections and supporters of the CWI took part in protests against the French energy company TOTAL, for its role in leaving workers, employed to protect its sites in Yemen, unpaid for a year and...

Security workers demand wages and arrest of colleagues’ killers.Yesterday, Monday 6 February, around one hundred workers demonstrated in front of the parliament buildings, in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. They were demanding unpaid wages and seeking justice for their murdered colleagues. Their original...

New movements for change will need to arm themselves with the lessons of the Syrian tragedy.The military victory in Aleppo by Assad’s regime and its foreign backers was a turning point in the war in Syria. It has put the Syrian government once more in formal control of the country’s main urban centres. But is...

Manny Thain, Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales), from the
September edition of Socialism Today

Published earlier this year before the Chilcot report was finally
released, Blood Year by counter-insurgency strategist David Kilcullen is
a damning indictment of the so-called war on terror unleased by US
imperialism in 2001, with the full support of Tony Blair.

Imperialist solutions are no solution at all. Next month will mark the second anniversary of US-led “Operation Inherent Resolve” against ISIS/Daesh in Iraq and Syria. US President Barack Obama recently boasted about the successes of this campaign. There is no easy way of independently verifying the...